The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-29
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Gallery.
The Lancaster cornty prison has manuiac-
turea and sold 300 yards Of carpet since De.
cember lst.
Go to Welheys photograph Gallery and
get dozen of Cabinc, Photographs fora dol
lar and a half.
In the matter of 81 es.l there is a great sim
ilarity between fiash of lightning and bit
Of unfounded gossip.
The Rev. DR. Dix, rs rector of Trinity
church. New York, received salary of $780,
600 a year. His assistant priests were paid
5000
Il has been computed that the death rate
81 the globe is 81 a minute, 97,79o day, and
35.Gse. .ss5 a year. and the birth rate 20 a min
te 100, 500 a day, and s6,792,ooO year.
We have on hand large number of good
brick which We viii sell in quantities 10 suit
the purchaser. Prices very reasonable Yard
opposite the planning mill.
HoLBRooE Bios. q PARsoN.
Georgia, the very center of Mr. Grady :
new South sends colcred men to the pen
itentiary for stealing an article valued at 10
cents. and lets 20 free white men who mur-
der negroes
A bolt of lightning literally knocked the
head of a horse belonging to Michael Fen
nell. near Congruity Westmorcland county
The head was torn of the body and flesh,
blood and brains stnewn in every direction ="
The President is reported as saving the
Confederate flag business viii only make The
solid South more solid for the Democratic
party, and disrupt the schemes Of protection
and prohibition that promised to iniareit
A eablegram from London informs the
listening western world that Buffalo BIZ
performed before three kings Monday. The
redoubtable William has frequently played
before tour kings in the lowly dissipation Of
poker.
rbe veterans captured Lee and his army
10 lse5 and they had an unconditional sur
render Of President Cleveland and his adyi-
sers in 1857. The boys are marching on
and not sound asleep as the President sup
posed.
Massachusetts women have been SANDER
ed The excess of females the State is 76,-
373. but Of this number 65. .OO4. or more than
s. per cent, are widows who have lost their
husbands in the dangerous yocations that
fall to the lot of New Englanders.
Railroad companies running through any
portion Of the state of New York are given
until May /. 1855, to get clea- of ''the car
stover But they must go on or before that
time Other States would do well to follow
suit, and railroads would do well to note the
fact
The youth who goes sparkling in Mt
Vernon. \. Y. must be on his guard. A
judge of that place has just sent TO the pcni-
Tertiary for four months both the man and
the woman because the former would not
explain to the police why he had visited the
house of his sweetheart.
The son of the soil in Texas appears to be
having tough time this season. The editor
of the Flatonia Argus sings:
The clinchbug eats the farmers grain.
The bee-moth spoils his honey,
The beibug fills him full Of pain,
The humbug scoops his money
Mar MARkET-we have just added a
large Refrigerator to our Meat Market, in
which all meats can be kept cool and clean.
Mutton, beet, pork, &c, kept constantly on
hand. Open daily. Parties buying meat
can have If kept in the refrigerator until
wanted
Ross DAVE q Co.
According to the reports al the Notional
Headquarters for the last quarter Pennsyl-
yania still continues the banner depart
ment " ofG. A, r.. having SS,S9l members
in good standing and S,465 suspended. The
Department of Ohio is second, having 81, 099
in good standing and none suspended. The
Department of New York Is third, having
s3.2ls in good standing and 2.2I3 suspend
ed
The Postoffice Department last week be
gan the issue Of a new design Of the ordinary
one-oent postage stamp. The centre of the
new stamp consists of a profile bust of Benz.
Franklin, looking 10 the left, in an oval
disk with shaded back ground tie lower
portion bordered with pearls and the upper
with curved panel, containing In small
white letters the words United States
Postage" The whole is engraved upon
shield shaped tablet. with iruncatcd pyrami-
dal base, bearing on it the words one and
cent on either side Of the figure /. The
appearance of the stamp is somewhat like
thar now ia uSe. its colors being utraniar
inc blue,
The editorial departments Of the July
Hofpers are peculiarly well laden. In the
Easy chair George William Curtis discusses
the significance of the new Equitable Assllr
anoe Building as an indication of the speedy
and economic despatch of private enter
prise in noticeable contrast to the slow and
wastefnl extraragance Of the Albany Capt.
tol. He also writes entertainingly concern-
ing Scholarship in Politics. Advice TO Scws-
papers. Statues to Public Men, etc. Ir-ihe
Editors Study Mr. Howells provides boun-
~ Of literary mamma on the subject OF Books
Of Adventure, as insianced in the works of
Count Tolstoi. Charles Reade, George Eliot
Thomas Hardy, and NJ Rider llaggard.
Charles Dudley Warner introduces the Dyou-
er with piquant essay on the query, /" Can
Husband open his Wife's Letters" A va
ric,y Of Attic humors is concluded by full
page illustration from George Du Mslurer,
cleverly satiri1ng the accomplishments Of
English society amateurs.
The entire lower portion of Centre county
Is at present plagued by a most extraordin-
airy visitation OF snails or garden slugs.
They come from their hiding places In crew
lces, under board-walks. stones. etc, only at
night, and they cover the roads and walks
by millions In Penn's Valley and Bloom
held and the surrounding country they have
eaten every grown thing in their path Some
gardens have been entirely destroyed. A let
ter from Penn's Valley says that mornings
aiier warm nights walks and roads are liter
leave in their trails and by bushels of dead
snalls that have been crushed by pedestrains
and Wagons. Lime Paris green, salt and
other insects dcsiroyers have been scattered
hberAiis where the snails travel and feed,
but they have no effect on them. The sim
gn'ar part of This plague is that no insects Of
any KIND were ever known tc BE- in the coun-
y before. Where they come FROM or what
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